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What theories do you have?
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What is the theory your religion has given?
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What is the theory your religion has given?
Where does the earth end? It does not. The middle is everywhere!
The observable Universe is currently estimated at about Ninety some odd billion light years across, the age around 13 and 3/4 billion years old. (Space expands faster than light).
So the real size of the universe is probably at least 150% of the observable size, but likely even larger. We'll probably never know, considering that, yes, space is expanding faster than light from end to end, and we'll never be able to see further than the age of the universe in light years.
Actually, no it wouldn't. Reading up further on connes' theory, there would be no "other side", as that [i.e. a "side"] presumes more space. But that is the end of space, remember.I don't think it has to have an edge. I picture it as either going on forever or looping back into itself, so that if you keep going in a straight line for ridiculous distances you eventually end up back where you started. It doesn't really make sense for the universe to have an edge because then there would have to be something that exists that is not part of the universe that is making the other side of the edge.
The observable Universe is currently estimated at about Ninety some odd billion light years across, the age around 13 and 3/4 billion years old. (Space expands faster than light).
So the real size of the universe is probably at least 150% of the observable size, but likely even larger. We'll probably never know, considering that, yes, space is expanding faster than light from end to end, and we'll never be able to see further than the age of the universe in light years.
What theories do you have?
Or
What is the theory your religion has given?
Yes, the edge of our universe is our event horizon. And this is the horizen beyond which we cannot see any event and it is about 14 billion light years from here.
And interstingly event horizons are common. And of course every self respecting black hole has an event horizon. And so each black hole is also the edge of the universe.
And we can create event horizons in the laboratory, in swirling liquids.
And consider, we are now sharing an event on Central at the speed of light. And as far as we, homo sapiens, are concerned, time and space have been abolished and we are disembodied. It's as though we are pure spirits, but our minds haven't quite caught up with our luck quite yet.